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BERLIN (JTA) — Unknown perpetrators kicked and beat a 21-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah after slurring him with anti-Semitic insults. The victim, identified as Oliver Geffers of Bonn, was slightly injured in the Tuesday evening attack but did not seek medical help, according to the police report on the incident. The state criminal police…

Anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses nearly doubled in 2015, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported in an audit released on Wednesday, according to JTA. In addition, the number of anti-Semitic assaults across the country increased by more than 60 percent last year, the organization’s audit found. A total of 90 incidents were reported on 60…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Sunday in Rome to discuss the stalled peace efforts with the Palestinians, officials on both sides confirmed Wednesday, according to AFP. An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu and Kerry would tackle “issues relating to security and peace.” State…

The Conservative Party in Canada, which heads the opposition, on Wednesday accused the Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of abandoning the fundamental principles of Canadian foreign policy. In a statement, the Conservatives said that the government has abandoned Israel in order to renew relations with Iran despite its involvement in international terrorism.…

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) insisted on Wednesday that the chairman of her party, Yitzhak Herzog, still wants to join Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition – and stated that she will not allow that to happen. “It sounds far-fetched – but I know he wants to enter the government under any conditions. I will do…

Florida Senator and former Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio announced that he would seek reelection to the US Senate in a written statement publicized Wednesday evening. Rubio, who prior to Wednesday had insisted he would not run for a second term, explained the about-face. “In politics, admitting you’ve changed your mind is not something most…

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) pledged to work on behalf of the embattled town of Amona, which is slated for demolition later this year. During the interview Bennett also responded to recent criticism by former security officials against the current government and discussed ongoing…

Israel need not rush to negotiate a new Memorandum of Understanding with the current administration, a senior aide to Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump told Channel 2 on Wednesday. The Memorandum of Understanding, which sets the terms and quantity of US military aid to Israel is set to expire in 2018. President Obama and Prime…

A former Secret Service agent claims then-First Lady Hillary Clinton regularly had violent outbursts, abusing Secret Service agents verbally and at times physically. Gary Byrne, who guarded the Clinton’s during Bill Clinton’s tenure as president from 1993 to 2001, says the First Lady had an explosive personality behind closed doors, and treated those around her…

On Wednesday, Education Minister and Jewish Home chief Naftali Bennett paid a shiva visit to Shas spiritual head Rabbi Shalom Cohen to console him over the recent loss of his wife. The two discussed Rabbi Cohen’s experiences during the Israeli War of Independence, and Cohen’s escape, along with other residents, from the Old City of…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home party on Wednesday evening participated in a Ramadan fast-breaking event in the village of Ara in northern Israel. During the event, Shaked stood up and blessed the participants in the Arabic language.

Israel’s military said Wednesday it was looking into why soldiers at an air force base were ordered to line up in a formation spelling out the word Google for a visit by the company’s top gun. Video of the formation that spread online led to criticism in Israel, and parents questioned why soldiers were made…

Arutz Sheva spoke with Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) about the plans to create an artificial island across from Gaza. Katz has been pushing for the project for several years, and has recently found both domestic and international support. “More and more officials are coming to understand the advantages and to support this. The…

A long dispute about the right of women to immerse in a mikveh alone, without the presence of an official attendant, appears to have been resolved, or at least nearly so. Here’s the sequence of events: It has been the official policy of the Rabbinate that all women must be accompanied by an attendant (always female)…

As French Jews continue to suffer from unbearable levels of anti-Semitism – which has caused thousands to leave for Israel and other countries – Jewish leaders from around the world have launched an unprecedented solidarity campaign to show their support for Europe’s largest, and most embattled, Jewish community. Hundreds of Jewish leaders from around the…

The ancient City of David welcomed a high-profile guest on Wednesday, when Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award-winning British actress Helen Mirren toured archeological sites in Jerusalem with Mayor Nir Barkat. Mirren, who has been chosen to award this year’s Genesis Prize, has a long history of interest in the Jewish state. The Genesis Prize honors…

Minister of the Interior Aryeh Deri has set a plan in motion to render the status of young men coming to study in Yeshivas in Israel equal to the status of those coming to universities, so that they will be able to get official “student” status in their home countries. In the past, Israeli consulates throughout the…

Members of the National Union-Tekuma faction held a special meeting on Wednesday in the town of Amona, which is slated for demolition later this year after the Supreme Court ruled the community was illegally constructed on Arab-owned land. Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel and MK Bezalel Smotrich toured Amona and heard from local residents regarding the…

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) is looking to move to the Samarian community of Amona, which is slated for destruction later this year, following a ruling by the Supreme Court deeming the town illegal. Hazan spoke with representatives of Amona about the possibility of renting out a caravan, the MK told Arutz Sheva. Hazan said he…

The Israeli Air Force welcomed Israel’s first stealth aircraft in history Wednesday evening, with the acquisition of an F-35 Lighting II fighter jet. The aircraft, produced by Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, is the first fifth-generation fighter acquired by Israel. A ceremony on Wednesday held at the Lockheed Martin factory celebrated the completion of…

A military court in Samaria which found four Hamas terrorists guilty in the murder of Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife Naama, who were slain on Route 60 south of Shechem (Nablus) last October, handed down life sentences to the four on Wednesday. The court sentenced all four members of the terror cell that killed…

A Holocaust survivor has publicly called out former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, saying his claim that Hitler supported Zionism is “offensive and hurtful.” During an J-TV interview on Monday, host Alan Mendoza was not even able to finish his introduction before Livingstone showed his ignorance of German history. Mendoza corrected him on several points, finally saying: “What’s disturbing about…

According to a recent article in Yediyot Ahronot, the IDF’s Homefront Command and Gaza Division have decided that the “Code Red” warnings will also be used for terrorists infiltrating Israel through tunnels. Until now, “Code Red” alerts have only been used for rocket attacks. In addition to the auditory warning, security coordinators will receive relevant instructions and residents…

The IDF will become the first country outside of the United States to possess the groundbreaking F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, which it will call the Adir. The first two planes will reach Israel in about six months, with another 17 arriving by the end of 2017. At that point, the IDF’s F-35 squadron will begin…

The Arab leadership in Israel has rejected the decision giving local Arab authorities the power to demolish illegally-build houses. The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee warned against the decision, which it calls a “criminal plan” and Arab mayors agreed not to follow the new policy because of “the great danger involved.” Kamel al-Khitab, the deputy head…

Prosecutors have filed charges against Haim Bitton, the Egged bus driver involved in the crash that left six people dead and twelve others injured in February. He is charged with manslaughter, irresponsible driving, driving at an unreasonable speed and other crimes. The indictment further alleges that, even though Bitton had a wide field of vision, he…

In an emotional ceremony yesterday (Tuesday), “shield of Israel” citations were awarded to 13 ordinary citizens who put their lives on the line to fight against terror on the streets of Israel.  The citation was given by “Shurat Hadin” CEO Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Res. Brig. Gen. Avigdor Kahalani, during the organizations’ international conference in Jerusalem.   “This was a…

Accusations of anti-Semitism have arisen in the congressional race for New York’s 13th district. Last week Assemblyman Keith Wright shared an article accusing an opponent of not helping his district because the opponent is Jewish. Councilman Mark Levine accused Wright of using anti-Jewish hatred in an effort to appeal to Dominican voters. Levine’s office translated part…

MK Miki Zohar (Likud) has submitted a bill to ensure that the government would allow a reasonable length of time for carrying out administrative destruction orders. The period would also be extended by seven years if the government provided an infrastructure for buildings in which people have resided during the previous ten years. In his…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will head to France on Friday ahead of a Middle East tour that will take him to Kuwait, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, AFP reports. In Paris on Saturday Ban will meet with President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, as France seeks to organize an international conference…

A jury on Tuesday found two Southern California men guilty of attempting to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, Fox News reports. Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi, both 25, were convicted of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. Elhuzayel also was found guilty of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, while Badawi…

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday sat down for an exchange of views with a group of American diplomats who challenged White House policy and called for air strikes on Syria. Last week, some 50 mid-level U.S. officials signed a so-called “dissent channel” cable calling for military action to force Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad…

(JTA) — USA Network’s owner is suing the company’s insurer for refusing to cover expenses after filming of the series “Dig” in Israel was interrupted by Hamas rocket attacks. The Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company is denying a $6.9 million claim because it defines the 2014 rocket attacks as war, not terrorism, the Hollywood Reporter reported…

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza on Tuesday allowed watermelon imports from Israel for the first time in eight years, the general director of marketing and crossings at the ministry said, according to Ma’an. Watermelons from Israel were forbidden to enter Gaza due to a Palestinian-imposed ban, the news agency said. Tahsin al-Saqqa told…

(JTA) —  One of Belgium’s largest Catholic churches played the Israeli anthem on its bells in honor of a visit by the president of the Jewish state, Reuven Rivlin. “Hatikvah” rang for the first time ever from the bells of Antwerp’s majestic Cathedral of Our Lady, prompting an astonished Rivlin to exclaim to Antwerp Mayor…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton engaged in a back and forth on the economy on Tuesday. The bantering began when Clinton called Trump’s economic policies and private-sector practices “reckless and wrongheaded”, warning he could “bankrupt” the country if elected. “In America, we don’t begrudge people being successful, but we…

The UN’s mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said on Tuesday he hopes that stalled Syrian peace talks can resume in July, but only if the security and humanitarian situation on the ground shows clear improvement. The UN-backed talks aim to reach a political settlement to Syria’s brutal five-year war, but the process has deadlocked…

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As the United Kingdom’s fateful referendum on whether to leave the European Union draws nearer, Prime Minister David Cameron is making his final push to convince voters to reject a “Brexit” – or British exit from the EU. While the most prominent arguments for and against have centered on the economy, as well as questions…

Former senior Mossad operative Uzi Shaya spoke today (Tuesday) at a conference entitled “Towards A New Law of War”, held in Jerusalem by “Shurat Hadin”, a human rights organization dedicated to taking legal action against terrorist groups and those who fund them, which is currently representing 20,000 Israelis in a lawsuit against none other than…

An 11-year-old girl was killed Tuesday morning when a tree fell on a cabin at a Jewish camp in Indiana. In the accident at Camp Livingston in Bennington, a healthy tree was struck by lightning during a severe storm and fell on a cabin where campers were sleeping, the camp said in a statement. The camper…

It might not sound like the wisest thing to do – but then, that was the whole point. Ramadan evenings are prime time for TV in the Muslim world, and each year sees TV channels compete fiercely for ratings, with a never-ending list of sitcoms, dramas, and comedies. One Gazan channel’s candid camera idea definitely ranks…

Israel needs to stand up for its rights more forcefully in the international arena, according to Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who said that continued talk of a “two-state solution” actually harmed Israel’s standing abroad. The Jewish Home party leader spoke today (Tuesday) at a conference entitled “Towards A New Law of War”, held in Jerusalem by…

Carlos Rosenkrantz, a Buenos Aires attorney and law professor, as well as a former presidential adviser, will be the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court of Argentina. Rosenkrantz, 57, is expected to be sworn in to the nation’s highest court next month after being approved last week by two-thirds of the Senate. He was…

Jordan on Tuesday evening declared the desert border regions with Syria and Iraq “military zones” barred to civilians, after a suicide bomber killed six Jordanian soldiers near the Syrian frontier earlier in the day. King Abdullah II had earlier vowed to hit back with an “iron fist” after meeting top civilian and military officials to…

North Korea on Wednesday morning (local time) tried but apparently failed in its latest test of a powerful, new medium-range rocket capable of striking American bases in Guam, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said, according to AFP. A ministry official said the North fired an unidentified missile off its east coast shortly before 6:00 a.m. Wednesday…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed to seek a solution to the impending demolition of the village of Amona in Samaria. Speaking at a Likud faction meeting on Monday in the Knesset, Netanyahu told party members: “The subject of Amona is sitting on my desk… On the matter of Amona, I have held consultations and…

Israel’s foreign ministry has dismissed Palestinian Authority accusations surrounding the death of a Palestinian youth during stone-throwing attacks against Israeli traffic along Route 443. Three motorists were injured when Arab terrorists hurled rocks, bottles and other projectiles at their cars early Tuesday morning. IDF soldiers opened fire on the rock-throwers in the course of a…

An Egyptian court has struck down an agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which would have seen two strategic Red Sea islands transferred to Saudi control. News of the deal, struck earlier this year between Cairo’s cash-strapped government and Riyadh, provoked angry protests by Egyptians, who saw the agreement as a blow to national sovereignty.…

Two Israeli hikers have been rescued from the border between Russia and Mongolia, after a blizzard left them trapped some 6,600 feet above sea level. The Israelis were rescued Tuesday along with two Russian hikers trapped alongside them, and were flown to Russia via helicopter from the Shumakskie Istochniki trail where they had been stranded. Israeli…

The President of the European Council has said the European Union will offer an “unprecedented package” to induce Israel and the Palestinian Authority to reach a two-state solution, in a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Brussels. The European Council is essentially the policy-making body of the EU. In his first official visit to…

A Dutch Jewish man said he suffered sustained anti-Semitic abuse after he posed in his yard holding an Israeli flag. The 47-year-old executive, who works as an account manager, said the abuse occurred in the city of Almere, 15 miles east of Amsterdam, on Monday. Passers-by saw him holding the flag for the photo with a…

A 57-year-old woman dubbed “the wandering Israeli” by Peruvian media left Lima’s international airport after living in the arrivals area for 19 days and making headlines across the country. Olga Babaev’s story was reported by Peruvian newspapers and TV channels, which likened it to Steven Spielberg’s film “The Terminal.” A nearly eight-minute broadcast Sunday followed her as she left the airport…

Iran and its leading proxy Hezbollah have been quick to jump on a controversial decision by Bahrain to strip a leading Shia cleric of his citizenship, calling on the Arab Gulf state’s Shia majority to overthrow the government. Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim’s citizenship was revoked on Monday, just one day after the main Shiite opposition…

Hundreds of Eritrean asylum-seekers took to the streets near Tel Aviv on Tuesday in support of a UN probe into the African state’s regime, considered one of the world’s most repressive. Chanting “dictator out!” and “Viva Geneva!”, many wearing blue caps with the United Nations crest, they rallied outside the Israel mission of the European…

The IDF’s military police have opened an official investigation into the fatal shooting along Route 443 early Tuesday morning, which resulted in the death of a Palestinian bystander. The 15-year-old Arab teen was killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on terrorists who hurled rocks, bottles and molotov cocktails at motorists traveling along the traffic artery, in…

One out of every 113 people in the world was forced to leave their home and is now classified as a “refugee” or “asylum seeker,” according to recently-released information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The recent report notes that a total of 65.3 million people became refugees or asylum seekers by the end…

Bentzi Gopstein, the head of the anti-assimilation organization Lehava, successfully stopped Christian missionaries from holding a conversion ceremony in Rishon Leziyon on Saturday. “My family and I, together with 50 Lehava activists from across the country, spent Shabbat in Rishon Leziyon. We walked about 40 minutes to the cultural center where one of the worst…

Rabbanit Yael Cohen, the wife of Shas’s spiritual leader, passed away Tuesday morning. She was about 78 years old and had been hospitalized due to a serious illness. The rabbanit was the daughter of the mekubal Rabbi Mansur Ben Shimon of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, who was considered one of the leading Sefardi rabbis of his time.…

MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ), the head of the Knesset Finance Committee, has expressed his opposition to the growing trend of haredi youths pursuing academic studies. Earlier this week, Gafni provided the opposing arguments in a meeting at Bar Ilan University titled “Haredim and Israeliness – separating and bringing together.” In a record posted on the website Behadrei Haredim (In…

A car bomb killed several Jordanian soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the Syrian border on Tuesday, the army said. “At 5:30 a.m. a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district opposite the Syrian refugee camp, killing or wounding several Jordanian soldiers,” a short statement said. The army said that it had destroyed several “enemy” vehicles at the…

Police in Brussels arrested a man after they were alerted to a “suspicious situation,” the BBC reports. According to AFP, he was wearing a fake suicide vest. The situation, which was treated as a potential bomb threat, occurred at the City 2 shopping center. Police have blocked off nearby streets and Prime Minister Charles Michel is currently in…

Turkey and Israel will this weekend announce a deal on normalizing ties, ending a six-year diplomatic crisis sparked by a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in which 10 Turkish nationals died, a report said Tuesday. The Hurriyet daily said the two sides would make the announcement during final talks on June 26 after intensive diplomacy resulted in a compromise agreement on…

Sixty percent of the Israeli public believes that the current political establishment is purposefully concealing the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Yemenite children. The data comes from a new survey by the Midgam Institute, conducted by Dr. Mina Tzemach and the Knesset Channel. Between 1948 and 1954 hundreds of babies and toddlers of Yemenite parents disappear.…

A group of Palestinians shot overnight, one of them fatally, after throwing rocks, may have been “uninvolved bystanders,” the IDF said Tuesday. “From initial inquiry, it appears uninvolved bystanders were mistakenly hit during the pursuit,” an army spokeswoman said. Asked by AFP whether that included the person killed, she said yes, as well as those wounded. The spokeswoman said the…

A day after the furor erupted over the Ministry for Religious Services’ decision to terminate the Chief Rabbi of the Ethiopian community, Rabbi Yosef Hadane explains why he will not insist on keeping his position. “I don’t need the seat to keep working. It’s just that the work is very complicated,” he told Army Radio on Tuesday morning.…

TORONTO (JTA) – A rare breed of sheep said to be descended from Jacob’s flock referenced in the Bible will be shepherded to Israel with the help of a Canadian Jewish couple and Israel’s national airline. El Al announced recently that it will “heavily subsidize” the costs of shipping the so-called biblical sheep “from a…

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian Arab and seriously wounded two others near the village of Beit Ur overnight Monday, Palestinian security officials told AFP. They said the dead man was Mahmoud Badran, 20, and added Israeli liaison officials told them soldiers opened fire at the three as they hurled rocks at traffic on a…

Jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS) group drove Syrian regime troops out of Raqa province on Monday, killing dozens of fighters in a lightning counter-attack, a monitoring group said. The attack was mounted late on Sunday in response to a regime offensive in the ISIS stronghold of Raqa launched on June 3 that advanced about…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tensions between Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly were behind Lewandowski’s departure announced Monday by the campaign. On the same day, Lewandowski said separately that he stood by Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The New York Times first reported what it said was a firing,…

Iranian intelligence officials said Monday they had broken up “the biggest terrorist plot” to ever target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, The Associated Press reported. An anchor on state television read off a statement attributing the information to Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. Officials could not be immediately reached for comment to elaborate, according…

IDF forces, in cooperation with the Border Police and Civil Administration, demolished overnight Monday the home of terrorist Bashar Masalha in the Palestinian Arab village of Hajja, located 18 kilometers west of Shechem. Masalha carried out the terrorist attack in Jaffa last March, in which American tourist Taylor Allan Force was murdered ten others were…

An Israeli official on Monday evening expressed optimism about the chances of Israel and the United States reaching an agreement on the American military aid package to Israel. “The gaps between the United States and Israel regarding the aid package are not significant,” the official said, noting that in order to formulate a multi-year plan…

The Obama administration has concluded that uranium particles discovered last year at a secretive Iranian military base likely were tied to the country’s past, covert nuclear weapons program, The Wall Street Journal reports. The findings contradict Tehran’s longstanding denials that it was pursuing a nuclear bomb. Traces of man-made uranium were found at the Parchin…

Broad support from women and minority voters has helped Hillary Clinton open an early lead over Donald Trump nationally, a new poll released on Monday finds, according to The New York Times. The Monmouth University survey found that 47 percent of registered voters back Clinton while 40 percent support Trump. The survey is the latest…

The Spanish village formerly known as “Kill the Jews” is twinning with an Israeli town, JTA reported Monday. In late 2015, the ancient Spanish town of Castrillo Matajudios, which translates as “Camp Kill Jews”, officially changed its name to Castrillo Mota de Judios – meaning “Jews’ Hill Camp”. On Sunday, the town of Kfar Vradim in northern Israel…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he had read a memo from a group of frustrated diplomats urging strikes against the Syrian regime and found it “very good.”   The “dissent cable” became public last week after 51 serving US officials signed a call for direct US military action to force Bashar al-Assad’s…

A group of Muslim activists in Jerusalem, backed by the Palestinian Authority, have launched a new campaign to deter Muslims from selling property to Jews in the Israeli capital. Activists operating under the banner of the “National Work Commission” declared the campaign last week at a public press conference, and have since been promoting it…

A new survey found that people in the UK are more accepting of immigrants than other countries in Europe. In particular, they expressed a willingness to accept Jewish migrants. The Times reports that the study, which was conducted by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, Oxford, found that seven percent of respondents would like to ban…

The chief rabbi for Samaria and the community of Elon Moreh, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, was questioned by the Civil Service Commission’s disciplinary division on Monday. Rabbi Levanon was under investigation for two complaints filed against him by the Religious Action Center and the Coalition Against Racism. The Religious Action Center is the political branch of…

Among the countless human rights causes supported by Jewish philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz, Jerusalem always figured high on his agenda. Determined to return lands and properties seized from Jews by Arabs in the eternal Jewish capital, Moskowitz was a key donor to organizations who do just that. During his funeral Monday, Jerusalem activists lauded his immense…

“In our era, miracles of God are implemented by the actions of people.” That’s how veteran Temple Mount activist and Likud MK Yehuda Gick summed up the legacy of American-Jewish philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz. Speaking to Arutz Sheva at the funeral Monday, Glick said the quite but endlessly generous billionaire had perhaps contributed more than…

Loading… Michael Fragin updates you on the behind the scenes of American politics, outlining the road to victory.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat spoke at the funeral for Dr. Irving Moskowitz on Monday, noting that the philanthropist “did many great things in the city of Jerusalem. “Sometimes in the world I had to defend the rights of Jews to build anywhere they want – in the city of Jerusalem or elsewhere. And I remind the…

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Monday met Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for the first time, the Pentagon said, offering few details about the visit. “They have had a good conversation,” said a senior US defense official with knowledge of the meeting. It was Liberman’s first foreign visit since being sworn in on May 30.…

The military prosecution on Monday filed a request with the military court in Jaffa asking to prohibit the publication of the names of officers and soldiers who are supposed to testify in the trial of Elor Azariya, the IDF soldier who is facing charges of manslaughter after having shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron.…

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid has expressed his strong opposition to the French initiative, insisting that no country can force Israel to take diplomatic steps. “I am opposed to the French initiative, because no one can make Israel do anything against its wishes. We are a sovereign country and we will decide our fate for…

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis has challenged the Swedish government to lift all restrictions on Jewish practices in Sweden, after its Ambassador to Israel claimed his prime minister wants to lead the fight against worldwide anti-Semitism. In a letter to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt – who also serves as Moscow’s…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) does seem to be too excited over the agreement between opposition head Yitzhak Herzog and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. However, she did express pleasure over Israel avoiding what she called “Camp David 2.” In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Shaked said that the information about the existence of negotiations…

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas are actively promoting a classic blood libel against Israel, after circulating a fabricated statement in the name of a prominent rabbi allegedly calling to poison Palestinian wells. False allegations of Jews poisoning drinking water – along with other rumors such as those accusing Jews of drinking non-Jews’ blood – were…

Security guards at the Kerem Shalom Border Crossing, along with the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak), foiled an attempt to smuggle dozens of professional wetsuits into Gaza. The suits were hidden in seemingly innocent shipments of sports clothing and equipment, which were imported in order to supply the…

European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council has decided to adopt the French peace initiative, according to a statement released Monday afternoon. “The Council welcomes the Joint Communiqué on the Middle East peace initiative adopted at the Ministerial meeting in Paris on 3 June 2016,” it read. “The Council reiterates its support for a just, sustainable and…

A senior Israeli official on Monday justified profiling Muslims for security reasons, after Donald Trump said he was open to adopting the controversial practice in the United States and cited Israel. Intelligence agencies “must characterize, see where the dangers are coming from, and locate them,” Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said. “It’s not the entire…

To mark 40 years of his widespread public activity, Rabbi Asher Weiss has asked the general public to help spread the message of Torah. Most people know Rabbi Weiss because of his lessons, which are transmitted throughout Israel and globally to tens of thousands, and for his lectures targeting all types of Israeli audiences. The…

Russian and US fighter jets found themselves in a tense standoff in Syria, after Russia bombed opposition forces allied with the US. The incident occurred last week, while a group of about 200 rebels was fighting against ISIS near the border with Jordan. Russian SU-34 jets appeared during the course of the fighting and struck…

Arutz Sheva founder and former National Union party leader Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz spoke at Dr. Irving Moskowitz’s funeral. “Because of you we are winning,” he said, hailing the philanthropist’s prominent role in supporting Jewish communities in Israel, and in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in particular. “We have today, in Judea and Samaria and in eastern Jerusalem, over 800,000 Jews. By having that…

The man implicated in last week’s murder of Labour MP Jo Cox appears to have been affiliated with an American white supremacist organization, an investigation by the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed. Thomas Mair, who shot, then stabbed the 41-year old first term MP, reportedly shouted “Britain first” during the murder. Cox, who founded the…

French police have launched an investigation into a group of Hungarian soccer fans who were caught on camera making Nazi salutes during their team’s Euro 2016 match against Iceland, the UK’s Daily Mail reported. The upsetting images of the Hungarian fans performing the salute occurred after groups were seen climbing over segregation walls and brawling…

Construction of an underground security wall along Israel’s border with Gaza has prompted an outcry in the Strip, with calls for intervention by international human rights organizations and the United Nations to block the Israeli plan. The wall, which will run tens of yards into the ground and is intended to block Hamas terror tunnels,…

A 70-year-old woman drowned Monday morning in Haifa’s Bat Galim beach. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics were called to the shore and after many resuscitation attempts, they were forced to confirm her death. Shortly after, a 73-year-old man drowned in Akko’s (Acre) Argaman beach. MDA personnel also performed CPR, but had to pronounce his death.…

Following a wave of angry invective directed at the company commander testifying in the ongoing manslaughter trial of Elor Azariya, a number of ranking IDF officers have lent their support to the officer. Tom Naaman, who commands the company where Azariya served, has come under fire for testifying that the accused soldier told him he…

Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Ethiopian community of Israel, Rabbi Yosef Hadane, was dismissed from his position by the Ministry of Religious Services. Army Radio reported that the reason for the rabbi’s dismissal pertains to his allegations that marriage registration offices, run under the auspices of the Ministry of Religious Services, discriminate against Ethiopians, citing…

Loading… Jewish-American philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz (z”l) was laid to rest on Monday at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Moskowitz, who was among the most prominent financial backers of Jewish communities in eastern Jerusalem and across Judea and Samaria, passed away last Thursday at his home in Florida. He was 88 years old. Rabbi…

Employees of the judicial system announced Monday morning of a surprise strike in courts across the country. Chairman of the National Association for Court Management, Danny Hasson, explained that the reason behind the sanction is due to changes in work procedure led by court administrations. As a result, there may be disruptions in courtroom discussions…

The Jerusalem Municipality Naming Committee has accepted the recommendation of chairwoman and Deputy Mayor Yael Antebi (Pisgat Zeev on the Map) to dedicate a square on Shaarei Tzedek Street in honor of the Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip. The location of the square was chosen to due to its proximity to the Gush Katif…

(JTA) — Rhode Island’s General Assembly approved legislation that would prohibit the state from contracting with companies that engage in boycotts of allies of the United States, including Israel. The Anti-Discrimination in State Contracts Act was passed June 16 by the Rhode Island House in a 63-4 vote and “in concurrence” two days later by…

Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Ze’ev Elkin on Sunday night responded to the secret letter of understanding signed between Zionist Union leader Yitzhak Herzog and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in which Herzog agreed to a number of long-standing Arab demands. Among the subjects covered in the letter are the division of Jerusalem, the future…

Reconciliation talks between longtime rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah continue to stall, and a new planned round of meeting has been put on hold, the Ma’an news agency reports. The sides began a third round of talks last Wednesday in the Qatari capital of Doha, but they took a negative turn Saturday when Hamas…

NEW YORK (JTA) — New York’s state legislature approved a bill that would provide greater oversight of an Orthodox-controlled school district along with $3 million in aid. The bill concerning the embattled and financially troubled East Ramapo School District in New York’s Rockland County, passed both houses of the legislature on June 16 and will…

The head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, Davidi Perl, on Sunday expressed his satisfaction with the government’s decision to transfer an additional budget to communities in Judea and Samaria due to of the wave of terrorism that has hit the Jewish population in the region. “There is not a sense of relief – but…

Investigators have begun examining the black box flight recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, authorities said Sunday, according to AFP. The Airbus A320 operating Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar screens between the Greek island of Crete and the north coast of Egypt on May 19.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet next week in a European capital, against the backdrop of the French peace initiative and a Quartet report likely to severely criticize Israel’s policies in Judea and Samaria, Haaretz reported Sunday. A senior Israeli official said Netanyahu spoke with Kerry by telephone…

(JTA) — A man with a stash of assault rifles, bomb-making instructions and Nazi paraphernalia in his suburban New York home was arrested on weapons charges. Edward Perkowski, 29, was arrested June 16 at the house in the Long Island hamlet of Mount Sinai. His brother, Sean Perkowski, 25, who also lives in the house,…

A boxer from Syria bowed out of a qualifying round for the Olympics because he would have had to face off against an Israeli contender, Haaretz reported Sunday. The Syrian boxer, Ala Ghasoun, had been scheduled to vie against Israel’s Artium Musley. Since Ghasoun refused the match, Musley will be automatically moved to the next…

Israel and Turkey’s negotiating teams are set to meet at a European capital on June 26 for a decisive round of talks on the reconciliation agreement between the two countries, Haaretz reported Sunday. A senior Israeli official estimated that it would be the last negotiations meeting, during which the remaining disputes between the sides will…

On Sunday, the Cabinet rejected a bill proposed by MK Yael German (Yesh Atid) to allow local authorities to determine whether or not to operate public transportation in their respective municipalities. Currently, throughout most of Israel, there is no public transportation on Saturday. A survey published by the Smith Polling Institute revealed that a majority…

An Israeli NGO opposed to European Union financial support for illegal land grabs inside of Israel is calling on British expatriates living in Israel and British Zionists to support the proposed ‘Brexit’ and vote “leave” in this week’s referendum on membership within the central European government. The vote, which is slated to take place this…

Speaking over the phone to “Face the Nation” on CBS Sunday morning, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump called for increased scrutiny of Muslims in the US following a terror shooting in an Orlando nightclub that left 49 dead and 53 wounded. While prominent Democrats, including President Obama, have called for stricter gun laws after the…

British soccer icon David Beckham revealed that he considers himself to be Jewish because of his grandfather. During a discussion at the London Jewish Cultural Center, the 41-year-old made it clear that Judaism had been a part of his life. “My grandfather was Jewish, that was on my mother’s side, so yes, I do see…

Opposition leader and Zionist Union chief Isaac Herzog agreed to far reaching concessions on the eve of the 2015 election, a report by Channel 10 on Sunday revealed. Herzog, who prior to the election was seen as a viable candidate for Prime Minister, signed a secret letter of understanding with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,…

A rabbi from the Ramot Daled neighborhood of Jerusalem issued a new religious edict in his synagogue stating that any person who possesses a smartphone with unfiltered Internet access may not receive a Torah Aliyah (calling a congregation member to the podium for a segment of reading) nor may he serve as cantor. In recent…

Obama administration officials and leaders of the Zionist Union party lambasted Israel’s government on Sunday over a 70 million shekel spending plan for Yesha towns, including a large allocation to boost security. The coalition government passed on Sunday morning the spending plan, which includes 15 million shekels to bolster Yesha communities suffering from Arab terrorism…

The Israeli team won the gold medal at the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship on Sunday for their hoops and batons routine. In the past few days, the team was also awarded the silver medal in the ribbons event, and a bronze for the group all-around final behind Russia and Belarus. The team of Alona Koshevatsky,…

Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, commander of the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that his country plans to deploy a naval presence in the Atlantic Ocean sometime this year. The Atlantic Ocean borders both North America and western Europe. Sayyari did not specify how close to the United States his ships would sail,…

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday night clarified that he backs Major Tom Naaman, the commander of IDF soldier Elor Azariya who is facing charges of manslaughter after having shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron. Naaman testified in the trial last week and, while he said that Azariya was a good and disciplined soldier, he also said…

Three people were killed in northeast Syria on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked an event commemorating the massacre of Christians more than a century ago, state media and a security source said.   The attack in the city of Qamishli took place as locals gathered at a hall to commemorate the deaths of tens…

The World lost one of its truly “Greatest” on the the 10th of Sivan -Dr. Irving Moskowitz Z’L. I had the honor and privilege of knowing Dr. Irving Moskowitz Z’L for the past 31 years. He and his beloved family transformed the Old City of Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, Judea/Samaria, and all of Modern…

Data published on Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate an increase in divorce rates in Israel. In 2014, the total number of couples who divorced in Israel was 14,430. Among them, 11,435 were Jews, 2,101 were Muslims, 120 were Christians and 153 were Druze. The figures further revealed an increase in the percentage…

Zionist Union chief Isaac Herzog’s spokesman Ofer Newman stirred up controversy Saturday night with provocative comments posted on Facebook targeting Jews living in Judea and Samaria. The post came after the airing of the TV special “The Settlers”, inspiring Newman to publicly air his feelings on the Jewish communities over the Green Line. Launching into…

Following a petition filed by the Movement for Freedom of Information, invoices revealed that the Prime Minister’s Residence cost Israeli taxpayers a total of 1,965,373 shekels (508,199 UDS) in 2014. The figures, pertaining to Netanyahu’s official residence and two private houses in Jerusalem and Caesarea, mark a decline of about half a million shekels from…

Speaking with Arutz Sheva, Hagai Klein described the harrowing moments when a terrorist opened fire on on the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv. Klein, who was wounded in the course of the attack, tackled the shooter, despite the great personal risk. Today Klein is recovering in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, where he has made a…

When Dafna Meir was murdered in her home in Otniel in January, she went down fighting, according to the teenage terrorist who murdered her in front of her children. Meir, a mother of six who worked as a neurosurgical nurse in Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, struggled against her killer, a fact that may have saved…

During the cabinet meeting on Sunday, the government authorized an additional 80 million shekels in funding for haredi yeshivas, as per a coalition agreement signed between the Likud and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) parties following last year’s election. With the additional funds, government spending on yeshivas will be restored to the level it was at…

JTA – On a crowded sidewalk in the French capital, Yomi Peretz exchanges jokes and backslaps with customers who are waiting in a 20-yard queue in the rain to enter his falafel shop. This chummy interaction comes naturally to Peretz, a tall enthusiast of boxing and poker who owns and runs l’As du Fallafel (The…

Approximately 700,000 secondary school students, in grades 7-12, will conclude their last school day of the year on Monday, thus officially kicking off the summer holiday. On July 1, they will be joined by 1.5 million primary school and kindergarten students. During the summertime vacation, the Ministry of Education will conduct the “Different Summer” program which…

Half a year after he was arrested by the Shin Bet security services, interrogated for days, and accused of being a “Jewish terrorist,” Israel’s prosecution service has confirmed what Netanel Furkowitz’s defense team have said all along: that the youth leader from the Samaria community of Kochav Hashachar is innocent of any wrongdoing, and had…

(JTA) Dirty, hot and exhausted Israeli soldiers waiting for their bus home from the army base tend, understandably, to be in a hurry to get on board. But when I was living in Israel during the first intifada, soldiers didn’t jostle to be first in line. Rather, the most coveted position was second. That’s because the bus driver…

Israeli Border Police nabbed a Palestinian weapons trafficking gang red-handed Saturday night, seizing an automatic assault rifle in the process. The three suspects were arrested at Tapuach Junction in Samaria, after security forces received a tip off. At around 10 p.m. Border Police officers at the junction identified the suspects’ vehicle, and immediately detained them for questioning.…

(AFP) Exasperated US diplomats are in open revolt over Barack Obama’s Syria policy, but radical change is unlikely in the twilight of his presidency. More than 280,000 people have been killed. Millions more have fled their homes. A relentless drumbeat of cluster bombs, barrel bombs, chemical bombs, murder, rape and torture has turned swaths of Syria…

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has vowed to increase benefits for the families of terrorists killed while carrying out deadly attacks against Israelis. Speaking at an iftar meal to break the Ramadan fast on Friday in Ramallah, Hamdallah said the PA and its institutions would continue providing a wide range of benefits – including financial rewards…

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has hit back in response to criticisms of the current government by former defense ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Ehud Barak at last week’s Herzliya Conference. Both Barak and Ya’alon took aim at the government for being, in their view, too right-wing, and Ya’alon took the opportunity to announce his ambition to…

A Texan hi-tech PR and social media guru killed in a tragic car accident in Tel Aviv Saturday night has been eulogized as one of Israel’s biggest supporters in his field. San Antonio public relations specialist Alan Weinkrantz was among three people killed when a car veered off the road and slammed into a restaurant in…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed to crack down on rampant illegal construction in the Arab sector, and announced a government aid package to boost Jewish communities and businesses in Judea and Samaria which have been battered by a wave of Arab violence. “Today, the Cabinet will discuss an assistance plan to strengthen communities…

Russia’s defense ministry on Sunday denied bombing US-backed rebels in southern Syria earlier this week. ‘ In a video conference with Russian military officials, the Pentagon said Saturday that it had expressed “strong concerns about the attack on the coalition-supported counter-ISIL forces at the Al-Tanaf garrison.” Hours later Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov denied that…

Eight displaced Syrians, including four children, were killed by Turkish border guards while trying to flee their war-torn country Sunday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The National Coalition umbrella opposition group – based in Istanbul and backed by Turkey – gave a higher toll of 11 killed and condemned the “terrible tragedy.”…

Islamic State group (ISIS) jihadists have launched a wave of suicide and car bombings to defend a besieged stronghold in northern Syria against US-backed fighters, a monitor said on Saturday. A Kurdish-Arab alliance last week encircled the city of Manbij and severed a key supply route used by ISIS from the Turkish border to the jihadists’…

An Egyptian court on Saturday handed down its final ruling in the trial of 11 people, including former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and Al Jazeera journalists accused of leaking state secrets to Qatar. The court confirmed a ruling from May 7, when six of the defendants were sentenced to death, Al Jazeera reported. After that…

About 20 firebombs were hurled towards the fence of the Binyamin region community of Psagot on Saturday night. There were no injuries or damages as a result of the firebombs, which were thrown from the direction of Ramallah. The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Psagot in recent weeks, including a…

The European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council is expected to adopt a resolution that will back the French peace initiative on Monday, Haaretz reported Saturday night. The resolution will call for an international peace conference including Israeli and Palestinian participation before the end of the year, according to the newspaper. On June 3, France hosted a…

Pentagon chief Ashton Carter on Friday hit out at Russia for bombing US-backed forces in southern Syria who he said were fighting ISIS, calling their actions “problematic.” “This was an attack on forces, first of all, that were fighting ISIL. Obviously that’s the first thing that’s problematic about this Russian conduct,” Carter told reporters, using an alternate acronym for…

MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) is expressing her fury over the government’s policies, and calls on leaders to listen to the speeches made at the recent Herzliya Conference. “Many sorts of people are crying out against their beloved country, which has lost its democratic values. It’s important to note that this also comes from (former)…

On Saturday morning in Holon, the body of a 57-year-old man was found with a knife in its back. The man was identified as a resident of Ramat Gan. Police are asking the public for help in finding the suspect, 63-year-old Alfonso Azariya from Holon. He is believed to have fled the scene of the…

A vehicle went off the road and struck a restaurant in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, killing three and wounding another five. The driver, a 40-year-old man and a man in his 60s were all critically wounded. All of the victims have been taken to Ichilov Hospital, where doctors declared three patients dead. The hospital…

Hundreds of people came out to protest a Christian conversion ceremony in Rishon Leziyon on Saturday morning. Activists from Lehava, including its head Bentzi Gosptein, broke into the cultural center where the event was taking place and blocked the entrances. Police at the location were unable to control the activists, who entered the hall again…

Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London who caused an uproar saying that Hitler was “supporting Zionism” at first, now claims that he may be Jewish. He recently spoke with the Jewish Chronicle, which began by asking the politician to name a Jewish friend. “[The late MP] Greville Janner used to drive me home from the House of Commons…

Israel said Saturday it was sending firefighting planes to a blaze in Cyprus, returning the neighboring island’s helping hand when the Jewish state suffered a devastating forest fire in 2010. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered that firefighting planes be sent to Cyprus to help put out a giant fire that is raging in Paphos,” on the island’s west coast, Netanyahu’s…

Experts are saying that a tank captured during the battle of Sultan Ya’akov in the First Lebanon War and which was returned to Israel from Russia is not the tank from which three Israeli tank crew members were abducted, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. The tank was given back to Israel by Russia following a ceremony…

Police are stepping up their presence in a haredi Jewish neighborhood of London after swastika posters were placed in a playground there four days in a row, JTA reported on Friday. Local police have increased patrols in Stamford Hill and are investigating the matter, the report said. The local branch of Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer…

This week Walter talks about the terror in Tel Aviv and the consequences of reduced access for Palestinian Arabs. He also explains how Israel tries to accommodate Israeli Arabs. Also: Why Israel has good reason to congratulate the Philippines on their Independence Day. And: The suicidal dreams of the Mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai Plus: Why we must respect…

Rabbi Yona Biniashvili, the Chabad shaliach (emissary) in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hakerem, passed away suddenly on Friday after suffering a heart attack. His funeral will be held Saturday night at 10:30 p.m. at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem. Residents of the neighborhood on Friday expressed their heavy sorrow over the loss of…

Former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday continued his verbal attacks against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. A day after calling for Netanyahu to be toppled during a speech at the Herzliya Conference, Barak clarified in an interview with Channel 2 News that he has no intentions for running for Prime Minister again,…

A panel tasked with uncovering the truth about human rights violations under Tunisia’s autocratic rulers before its 2011 revolution said Friday it has received 65,000 complaints. The Truth and Dignity Commission has tracked abuses committed between July 1955 – just a year before Tunisia gained its independence from France – and December 2013 when the…

Russia on Friday condemned a call by American diplomats for military strikes against the Syrian government. Russian officials criticized the so-called “dissent channel” cable signed by a group of U.S. diplomats urging strikes against President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, which it accuses of persistently violating a shaky ceasefire. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that attempts to…

The Palestinians have begun talks with Egypt on setting out the maritime borders of their hoped for future state and the resources they can extract from the sea, their UN ambassador to the United Nations said Friday, according to AFP. The goal is to establish an exclusive economic zone off the coast of Gaza under…

Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton’s lead in the presidential race this week following the Orlando shooting attack, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. The poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, showed Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, with a 10.7 point lead among likely voters over Trump. The number is down from…

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who took part in the Republican primaries, spoke to Israel’s Army Radio in support of presidential candidate Donald Trump and his statements regarding Muslims. Trump recently called for closing the United States’ borders to Muslims and mocked those who condemned him for it. “Right here in Israel, Muslims don’t just get…

New Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said he wants to have no permanent tensions with the country’s neighbors after serious ruptures with Israel, Egypt, Russia and Syria in recent years, in comments published Friday. Yildirim, a close ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in May took over the premiership from Ahmet Davutoglu who had spearheaded a policy of aggressively projecting Turkish…

Nava Segev, a resident of Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the lawlessness and the pain of knowing that her children and grandchildren are afraid to visit. Terrorists threw Molotov Cocktails at her home on Friday morning. No one was injured, though a window was damaged. “I woke up and I thought that my…

Israel allowed hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into Jerusalem for Ramadan prayers Friday, an official said, a week after revoking entry permits in response to a deadly attack. The 300 Palestinians are believed to be the first from the Strip to be granted entry to pray since Israel shut the border after terrorists killed four Israelis in…

(AFP) As European defense budgets rise in the wake of increased threats, Israeli companies are seeing a boost in sales, further solidifying the country’s image as an arms industry leader. The increases have come despite, and perhaps partly aided by, Israel’s continued conflict with the Palestinians – with Israeli firms themselves highlighting that their products have been tested…

(AFP) The man arrested over the murder of British MP Jo Cox was described by people who knew him on Friday as a loner who battled mental illness, but allegedly had ties to white supremacists. Identified by the British media as Thomas Mair, the 52 of Birstall on Friday, Lees told AFP that Mair suffered from…

(AFP) A former SS guard was on Friday convicted by a German court for complicity in the mass murders at Auschwitz death camp, capping what is likely one of the last Holocaust trials. More than 70 years after World War II, Reinhold Hanning, 94, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment over his role at the…

Yael Weissman, the widow of IDF hero Yanai Weissman, met with Ambassador Danny Danon at the Israeli Mission to the UN this week.  Yanai, who was on leave from his military service, was murdered in a terrorist attack on a supermarket in the Binymain region last February. Yael, who was in New York with her baby daughter…

There is a movie that came out in 1993 that was a comedy, drama, and fantasy rolled into one. The main character of the movie is played by Bill Murray. He is a jaded weatherman for a TV station and is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the February 2nd doings there. Specifically, on that…

The London Shomrim stopped a thief from robbing a member of the House of Lords earlier this week. The Jewish Chronicle reports that two youths riding bicycles attack Lord Glasman, a Labour Party peer, near his Stoke Newington home. Fortunately, several members of the Jewish neighborhood watch organization saw the incident and chased down the attempted muggers. They…

MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) hopes that the Knesset Ethics Committee will rescind the ban on MKs visiting the Temple Mount once Ramadan is over. “Thank G-d, every day lots of people go up to the Temple Mount,” he said. “Their numbers are growing. We broke a record when over a thousand Jews visited during Passover and…

It is with great shock and extreme sadness that we announce the passing of  Dr. Irving Moskowitz z”l to Gan Eden. Irving’s neshama-soul has gone to “Yerushalayim Shel Maaleh” (Jerusalem of the Heavens) and he will be in a place of honor for the righteous, next to The Throne of Glory. Irving Moskowitz was a…

Neta Lavi, the widow of terror victim Nehemia Lavi, is finding it difficult to look at pictures of her husband’s murderer’s parents. Muhannad Halabi’s mother and father were recently photographed while making victory gestures on Wadi Street in Jerusalem’s Old City, at the site where Nehemia Lavi was murdered. Halabi stabbed and killed Lavi, along with an…

Dozens of US diplomats think America should launch military strikes against the Syrian government, according to a State Department document, breaking ranks with President Barack Obama’s policy on the bloody civil war. The so-called “dissent channel” cable urges attacks against Bashir al-Assad’s regime for its persistent violations of a shaky ceasefire aimed at bringing an end to the five-year conflict.…

The Likud party is attacking former ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Ehud Barak, after they strongly criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and claimed that he uses extremism and fear tactics. Coalition head David Bitan (Likud) told Army Radio, “They don’t have the minimal respect for the Prime Minister, particularly because they served under him and didn’t say a word.…

Arab terrorists threw four Molotov cocktails at a home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv on Friday morning. The projectiles exploded and set off a fire. One struck a window, while the rest landed in the yard. The window was lightly damaged. The firebombs were thrown from al-Rabaya Street in Jabel Mukaber. Police and…

“Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: A man or woman who shall dissociate himself by taking a Nazirite vow of abstinence for the sake of Hashem. From new or old wine shall he abstain and he shall not drink vinegar of wine or vinegar of aged wine: anything in which grapes…

Hundreds of activists from the anti-assimilation groups Lehava and Yad L’achim will join Rishon Leziyon residents for a mass protest against a missionary event this Shabbat. On Saturday morning they will hold shacharit prayers in front of the municipal hall where the in which the missionaries are conducting a conversion ceremony. Rishon Leziyon Mayor Dov…

BOSTON (JTA) – Amid a spike in anti-Semitic activity across New England, Jewish and Israeli residents met with the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, to express their concern about incidents in the Boston suburb’s school system. More than 150 people attended the standing-room-only community forum with Mayor Setti Warren on Tuesday evening. The meeting followed the…

Texas has lost its bid to keep Syrian refugees out, after a federal judge dismissed the state’s lawsuit over resettlements from the war-torn Middle Eastern country. U.S. District Court Judge David Godbey ruled Wednesday that the state failed to make “a plausible claim for relief” in its lawsuit against the federal government and the International…

The alleged killer of British lawmaker Jo Cox was a “dedicated supporter” of a neo-Nazi group based in the United States, a civil rights group reported Thursday. The Southern Poverty Law Centre said that the man named by British media as the attacker, Thomas Mair, had a “long history with white nationalism”. “According to records…

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch parliament passed a nonbinding motion calling on the government to deny funding to organizations calling for a boycott against Israel. The motion, co-signed by three lawmakers, including a prominent politician for the ruling People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, was passed Thursday in the Tweede Kamer, the Dutch parliament’s lower…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged lawmakers to take action to prevent gun violence after meeting with families of the victims of Sunday’s shooting attack in Orlando, The Hill reports. The president pledged to be “relentless” in going after international terrorist groups, but said passing new gun laws is a crucial step in preventing…

Republican Senator John McCain on Thursday said that President Barack Obama is “directly responsible” for the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, citing the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) group during the president’s watch. He later issued a statement saying that he “misspoke”, according to The Associated Press. “I did not mean to imply that…

(JTA) — The Board of Deputies of British Jews joined the chorus of condemnations over the slaying of a Labour Party lawmaker near Leeds, in northern England. Jo Cox, 41, died Thursday from wounds she sustained after being shot and stabbed several times on the street, the Bristol Post reported. Police arrested a suspect, a…

Hamas is rejecting the Arab Peace Initiative and calling on Arab countries to stop promoting it. Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, on Thursday said the initiative is a threat to vital Palestinian interests. In an interview with the Al-Arabi Al Jadid newspaper, Zahar called on Arab countries not to promote the Arab…

The United States House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $576 billion defense spending bill which includes $635.7 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense programs, despite a threat by the Obama administration to veto the bill, The Jewish Insider reports. The fiscal 2017 defense appropriations bill includes $268.7 million in research and development funding for U.S.-Israel…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Thursday praised cities in France who expressed support for the “prisoner leader” Marwan Barghouti, as he put it. Hamdallah made the remarks at a meeting in Ramallah with a delegation of mayors from France who gave Barghouti honorary citizenship. The comments come amid an ongoing campaign to…

With increased anti-Semitic activity across New England, Jewish and Israeli residents of Newton, Massachusetts, met with Mayor Setti Warren to voice their concerns regarding incidents in the town’s school system. The forum, attended by about 150 people, was organized to discuss several acts of anti-Semitic vandalism at a Newton school that had gone unreported in…

(JTA) Mazel tov! That’s perhaps how the big shots in charge of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the first to take place in South America, will toast victories when the competition gets underway Aug. 5. Three of the top officials of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee, including its president, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, are Jewish. But in the…

Germany’s top Jewish group Thursday labelled as “disgusting” plans for a weekend auction of Nazi memorabilia, including Hermann Goering’s silk underpants. The Central Council of Jews in Germany appealed to the auction house Hermann Historica to cancel the controversial sale of Nazi relics planned for Saturday in the southern city of Munich. The council’s president…

Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein (Likud) has sent a letter of condolence to the British public and his UK counterpart, following the assassination of a British MP earlier Thursday. Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in broad daylight, in a brutal shooting and stabbing attack in her constituency. British leaders from across the political spectrum expressed…

Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) sniped back Thursday at Ehud Barak, after Barak called to topple Binyamin Netanyahu’s government. “Ehud Barak refuses to recognize Israeli democracy and the fact that Israel’s citizens chose a nationalist government,” Ariel said. “The state of Israel has yet to recover from Ehud Barak’ short but failed term as…

MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad / Joint List) reportedly intends to join a flotilla to Gaza, some six years after she participated in a flotilla aboard the infamous Mavi Marmara, where terrorists prepared an ambush for Israeli commandos. According to Channel 2 TV News’s website, the Freedom Flotilla will be an all-female endeavor, sailing in mid-September…

Dr. Irving Moskowitz, one of American Jewry’s leading philanthropists, has passed away aged 88. A passionate and lifelong support of Israel, Moskowitz, together with his wife Cherna, founded and led the Moskowitz Foundation in 1968, which supported countless initiatives in Israel and across the Jewish world. The couple also founded the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism, which…

According to residents of Kfar Bilu, the town council refuses to install an eruv, a boundary that allows observant Jews to carry certain objects in public areas, and use strollers and canes, on Shabbat. The residents claim that the council fears a proliferation of religious residents. Gal Taib, a disabled veteran and a resident of Kfar Bilu, is unable…

Former Knesset Member Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz on Thursday night eulogized Jewish philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz, who passed away at the age of 88. “Dr. Moskowitz was a leader and a revolutionary – you can add his name to the big list alongside Herzl, Jabotinsky, Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin. He was a humble, wise man…

Trump Tower looms over this part of midtown Manhattan. Today it is arguably at the center of the closely watched political activity that dominates the electoral landscape in this country. It was just a week ago, a few days prior to Shavuos, and while we were not there to see the man who knows how…

Israel’s new Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is scheduled to visit the United States this weekend for talks with his US counterpart, his office said Thursday, after Washington raised concerns over the Yisrael Beytenu chief’s appointment. Liberman’s trip will be his first abroad since being sworn in on May 30, though he is familiar to US…

Troop commander Major Tom Naaman arrived Thursday at Jaffa Military Court to testify in the trial of IDF soldier Elor Azariya, who is facing charges of manslaughter after having shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron. At the beginning of his testimony, Major Naaman explained that Azariya served under his command for eight months, and…

British MP Jo Cox of the Labour Party is in a critical condition after being shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on Thursday afternoon. According to reports, the 41-year-old mother of two was campaigning with locals near the town’s library when fight broke out in the street and she stepped in.  An eyewitness said that Cox wrestled with a…

Minister of Public Security, Strategic Affairs and Information Gilad Erdan (Likud) announced Thursday that the government is planning a series of legislative measures against Israeli organizations and citizens that promote the boycott of the state. “There will now be real price to pay for someone working against their own country in order to isolate it…

In the wake of the Orlando Massacre in which 49 people were murdered by a Muslim terrorist, Oliver Rosenberg, a Jewish Democratic challenger to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D), has stated that the incumbent, Congressman Jerry Nadle, “ needs to explain how he can be pro-LGBT” when he voted for and  supported the Iran nuclear deal.…

Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon took advantage of his speech at the Herzliya Conference Thursday afternoon to criticize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and announce that he intends to replace him. “The leadership should stop scaring the citizens and give the feeling that we are on the verge of a second Holocaust,” he said. “There is…

Right after Moshe Ya’alon spoke of hope and change, MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) mounted the podium at the Herzliya Conference to announce that Israel needs a Democratic Party of its own, like the American one. She said that she would spearhead the creation of a ‘Democratic Union’ that will be able to block Prime…

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich is marking 46 years since he and a group of Jewish refuseniks were arrested at Leningrad Airport, on June 15, 1970, as they tried to hijack a Soviet plane to Israel. He was released 11 years later. “I am celebrating a birthday,” he said. The famous “prisoner of Zion” spoke exuberantly to…

The B’tzedek NGO on Thursday filed an urgent appeal to the High Court of Justice (Supreme Court) demanding to ban the Conservative Movement’s planed egalitarian demonstration at the Kotel (Western Wall). Attached to the petition as respondents are: The Israel Police, Minister of Religious Affairs, Chief Rabbis of Israel, the Conservative Movement in Israel, the…

 An Israeli national was shot and killed in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city. Shay Azran, 37, was riding a motorcycle Wednesday night when he was shot 10 times at close range by an unidentified attacker in the Simon Bolivar neighborhood, the local news portal Minuto 30 reported. He died instantly. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding…

JTA – Amid a spike in anti-Semitic activity across New England, Jewish and Israeli residents met with the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, to express their concern about incidents in the Boston suburb’s school system. More than 150 people attended the standing-room-only community forum with Newton Mayor Setti Warren Tuesday evening. The meeting followed the revelation…

JTA – A French court slapped writer Alain Soral with a a $13,000 fine and a suspended prison sentence of six months for saying the Nazis should have finished killing the Jews of Europe. The sentence, handed down Tuesday, was over Soral’s Facebook post of last year about Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two anti-racism activists…

For the first time since the UK’s European Union membership referendum was announced in September 2015, polls show the “leave” camp leading the “remain” camp just a week ahead of the crucial June 23rd vote. According to the NCP rolling average of polls cited by Bloomberg the number of Britons supporting the UK’s exit from…

As Omar Mateen murdered dozens of people in an Orlando nightclub on Sunday, the New York-born terrorist took to social media to declare his support for the ISIS terror organization and decry the “filthy ways of the West”. “I pledge my allegiance to [ISIS chief] Abu Bakr al Baghdadi,” Mateen wrote in the middle of…

Speaking at the 2016 Herzliya Conference Thursday morning, opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) blasted the Likud-led government’s handling of terrorism and foreign policy, saying that under an “entirely right-wing government” Israeli security remained tenuous and relations with the Obama administration had sunk to new lows. “Finally we have a right-wing Prime Minister, a right-wing…

When Rebbetzin Yoheved Rachel Batzri passed away suddenly in 2013, Rabbi Binyamin Batzri, a leading Kabbalist and head of the Beit Yosef yeshiva in Be’er Sheva, was left alone to raise the couple’s 12 children. But tragedy struck again later that year when Rabbi Batzri himself passed away at the age of 57, leaving 12…

Internal Affairs Committee chair David Amsalem (Likud) castigated planned changes to the Kotel Plaza during an interview with Arutz Sheva on Thursday, arguing that the demand for a mixed-gender prayer space at the holy site was simply a political tool to gain recognition for the Reform movement. On Wednesday, Yisrael Pat, legal adviser to the…

Islamic State jihadists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said Thursday. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing,” Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) for Syria said in a statement. “ISIS has subjected every Yazidi woman, child or man that it has…

Russia’s defense ministry announced late Wednesday that a 48-hour ceasefire in the Syrian city of Aleppo had been introduced, starting from Thursday, to help stabilize the war-torn city. “On Russia’s initiative, a ‘regime of silence’ has been introduced in Aleppo for 48 hours from 00:01 16 June (2100 GMT Wednesday) with the goal of lowering…

A third round of talks between Fatah and Hamas began on Wednesday in the Qatari capital of Doha, the Ma’an news agency reports. The talks focused on continuing discussions on strategies for implementing a reconciliation agreement between the sides, members of Fatah told the Palestinian Authority-based outlet. Hamas and Fatah have been at odds since…

At the end of this week’s Torah reading, we are told that Moses is the humblest man in all of history. That’s quite a compliment in any case, how much more so when it comes from God Himself. It’s a great trait to have, especially when it comes to relationships. It’s an even more important…

MK Avi Dichter (Likud), chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, on Wednesday evening urged MKs from the left to “calm down” following reports that the Obama administration was opposed to a Congressional proposal to increase funding for Israeli missile defense in 2017. “After the White House approved $145 million in aid to…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stepped up her attacks on Donald Trump on Wednesday, blasting his proposals to build a wall on the Mexican border and ban Muslims from entering the country. “A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack. Neither would a wall,” Clinton said, referring to this week’s shooting attack in…

(JTA) — Michigan public schools must teach about genocide, including the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, under a new law. The legislation, which was signed into law on Tuesday by the state’s governor, Rick Snyder, calls for six hours of instruction about genocide between eighth and 12th grade. It specifically mentions the Holocaust and the…

Iran has filed a formal complaint with the International Court of Justice over the American Supreme Court’s ruling that nearly $2 billion in assets frozen in the United States will be recovered as compensation to families of victims of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported Wednesday. The Supreme Court ruled in April that…

The FBI says the shooting attack in Orlando is both terrorism and a hate crime, an agent said Wednesday, according to UPI. Speaking during a news conference, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ronald Hopper said, “This was an act of violence born out of hate that inflicted terror on an entire community. I would…

The Obama administration has met its sanctions relief obligations to Iran under last year’s landmark nuclear deal but is willing to further clarify what is and isn’t allowed in response to Iranian complaints that it’s not getting all the benefits it deserves, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, according to The Associated…

For months, the haredi officer charged with integrating religious soldiers into the army has endured an unending barrage of harassment and defamation from radical elements within the community opposed to service in the IDF. Hitherto, most of the harassment consisted of verbal assaults or obnoxious phone calls or messages left on the officer’s answering machine.…

The Knesset passed on Wednesday an anti-terror bill proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, with 57 votes in favor and 16 against. The legislation, which increases the punishments for organizers of terrorism and enables courts to convict terror cell leaders more easily, replaces a series of emergency provisions used since the establishment of the state.…

Rabbanit Yael Cohen, wife of Rabbi Shalom Cohen, who has been hospitalized at the Mayanei HaYeshua hospital in Bnei Brak in recent days, is reportedly in serious condition. Rabbanit Cohen, who has been suffering from a serious illness, has been in the hospital since Monday. Family members say her condition has deteriorated and have called…

Amos Gilad, Director of the Defense Ministry’s Political-Military Affairs Department, spoke on Wednesday at the 2016 Herzliya Conference, warning that the Iranian regime represented the greatest threat to Israel’s security. In his address, Gilad rejected calls for efforts to spread democracy in the Middle East, arguing instead that for the moment, stability must be the…

“Every friend of Israel is a friend of the United States and every enemy of Israel is an Enemy of the United States,” said Governor Michael “Mike” Dale Huckabee, 44th Governor of Arkansas and two-time GOP presidential hopeful. Speaking on Wednesday during the second day of the 16th annual Herzliya Conference, Governor Huckabee said “America…

Following reports Wednesday morning of possible cuts in American military aid to Israel, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated that the Obama administration was prepared to give the biggest military aid package in history, calling it “the largest single pledge of military assistance from the United States to any country in our history, cementing…

Former United States Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger on Wednesday said that an interim agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA) must ensure that Israel’s security concerns are met but also ensure the dignity of the Palestinians. Dr. Kissinger made the comments as he spoke to participants in the Herzliya Conference via live feed. Discussing…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has slammed “misleading” reports over alleged cuts in American military aid to Israel, accusing those circulating the reports of attempting to sow panic. “In the wake of numerous misleading reports, the Prime Minister’s bureau would like to clarify there has been no cut in American assistance,” a statement from the Prime…

The Palestinian Authority, under the leadership of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, has criticized Israel’s alleged “extremist” policies, which it claims include calls for revenge, collective punishment against the Palestinian people, and incitement against the Palestinian leadership. In an official statement, the PA condemned the closure imposed on the town of Yatta near Hevron following last…

Pranking members of the public – or, better still, public figures or celebrities – often makes for good comedy value and at least decent TV viewing. But one Egyptian program has taken the “punking” genre well beyond any reasonable limits. “Mini Daesh” (Arabic for “Mini ISIS”) fools people into believing they are being attacked or abducted by…

US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to respect a fragile ceasefire, warning that Washington’s patience was running out. “Russia needs to understand that our patience is not infinite, in fact it is very limited with whether or not Assad is going to be held accountable,” Kerry…

Tempers flared during a Knesset committee hearing on Wednesday which dealt with the proposed “Transparency Law”, which would require NGOs operating inside of Israel to disclose overseas sources of financial support. Former Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid), who opposes the bill, was expelled from the hearing. State officials representing a number of foreign countries…

A senior defense ministry source told defense reporters on Wednesday that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has no political legitimacy, and vowed that in the next war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza the Islamist terror group would be overthrown. The official began with surprisingly harsh words for Israeli government policy. “We are weak in terms…

The Hezbollah terrorist group has 100 active “sleeper cells” in Latin America, according to media reports in the continent. The Iranian-sponsored Shia jihadist group has long maintained close ties with the drugs and illegal weapons trades in Latin America, and has a substantial organizational infrastructure in several central and southern American counties. It’s success has…

A massive fire burning since the morning continued to blaze Wednesday afternoon in the capital. Some 60 firefighter units, aided by nearly a dozen aircraft, were deployed to contain the inferno, which threatened the Givat Shaul neighborhood and Har HaMenuchot cemetery. The fire spread quickly Wednesday morning, aided by hot weather and powerful winds. The…

US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro addressed the 2016 Herzliya Conference on Wednesday, noting the close social, economic, and political ties between the US and Israel. “Israel is home to over 2,500 US firms,” Shapiro said, pointing out that there “are more Israeli companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange than Indian, Japanese, and Korean listings…

Official state TV in the Palestinian Authority has claimed Mount Meron in northern Israel as part of “Palestine”. During a special Ramadan program for children on The Best Home television show, callers on the show were asked trivia questions and awarded prizes. While the holiday quiz appeared innocuous at first, some of the questions clearly…

Tirza Petrover, from the Binyamin community of Psagot, awoke Wednesday morning to find that a bullet had struck a window while her family was at home. No one was harmed. The bullet is believed to be a stray shot, though IDF forces are currently at the scene. “When I opened the bedroom blinds early this morning,…

(JTA) — First there was “Tinder for bras.” Now there’s a Yelp for sheitels, the wigs worn by many married Orthodox Jewish women. ShayTell may be the first-ever online customer review site for wigs. It’s certainly the most cleverly named. And if you’ve never considered the demand for such a site, consider this: When was the last…

(AFP) The United States denied Tuesday that it is in a dispute with its ally Saudi Arabia over how to handle the crisis in Syria. US Secretary of State John Kerry was all smiles late Monday when he welcomed deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to his home in Washington.   The influential 30-year-old prince, who…

Jerusalem’s planning and building committee has approved plans to build homes for Jews in Kfar Shiloah, after political pressure forced the issue off of the committee’s agenda two weeks ago. The proposal calls for building a three-floor residential building for Jews, on land purchased by the organization Ateret Cohanim in 2005. It will be located near Beit…

Bronze arrowheads, coins bearing the names of the Hasmoneans rulers, special vessels for storing perfumes and hundreds of items that are thousands of years old were offered for sale in a store in Jerusalem’s Mamilla Mall, which was not licensed to trade antiquities. All of the items were seized on Tuesday during an operation carried out…

Fourteen teams of firefights are working to control forest fires next to Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuchot cemetery and in the Jerusalem Forest. Firefighting planes have also been summoned to assist. The blaze in the Jerusalem Forest is quickly spreading due to a strong eastern wind. The emergency workers are trying to prevent the first from approaching…

Actor-director Mel Gibson and screenwriter Randall Wallace reportedly are working on a sequel to the controversial film “The Passion of the Christ.” Wallace told The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the sequel, that the second film will focus on “the resurrection of Jesus.” It would come come out more than a decade after the original…

At least 70 fighters have been killed in less than 24 hours of fierce clashes between pro-regime forces, jihadists and rebels in Syria’s Aleppo province, a monitor said Wednesday. Pro-regime fighters – backed by regime and Russian air strikes – retook the villages of Zaytan and Khalasa to the southwest of Aleppo city after losing control of…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) married his partner Irina Nevzlin in a small ceremony Tuesday night. The chuppah took place on the roof of Aish Hatorah Yeshiva, in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, while the reception was conducted in the Kotel tunnels. About 180 guests attended. Rabbi Gideon Perl, the chief rabbi of Alon…

Rabbi Gordimer is a member of the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, and a member of the New York Bar. His writings on Jewish topics are published widely. It is sometimes hard to believe what we are reading, as things are turned upside down in an effort to be politically correct and gain…

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday warned candidates in the presidential election in the United States against questioning his country’s nuclear deal with world powers, AFP reports. “We do not violate the nuclear accord… candidates in the American presidential election are threatening to tear up the nuclear deal. If they do so, we…

The shooting attack on the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 people were murdered was “foreseeable”, Islam expert Dr. Ephraim Herrera told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday. “The spokesman of the Islamic State (ISIS) said that Muslims in Europe and America should attack against non-Muslims during the month of Ramadan,” he explained. The target…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics national poll released Tuesday finds. The poll shows Clinton leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in November’s election, with 55 percent of those polled saying they could never vote for Trump. Most…

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday won the final primary of the Democratic nomination race in the District of Columbia, NBC News projected. The DC primary came more than a week after Clinton was declared the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party after securing a majority of Democratic delegates, including superdelegates. President Barack Obama later endorsed Clinton in a web…

After seven weeks of anticipation, this week all of Israel celebrated the Festival of Shavuot, time of receiving the Torah anew. The Shavuot experience is exhilarating and inspiring. But how do we know that we have truly received the Torah and re-committed ourselves to the Sinai covenant, on a deep, soul level?  This week’s edition of Temple Talk…

U.S. President Barack Obama lashed out at Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying the Republican presidential candidate is the one who’s un-American, CNN reports. The comments came in response to Trump’s own comments in an interview with Fox News on Monday, when he hinted that the President was complicit or approved of Islamic terror attacks and adding,…

(JTA) — Congregation Shearith Israel in New York will appeal a federal court ruling last month stripping its control of the historic Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island. The Manhattan congregation filed a notice Tuesday saying it will appeal to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to reverse last month’s  decision concerning…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening, at the Channel 9 outstanding employee awards ceremony, awarded a commendation for bravery to Dr. Regina Fikman, who served as a medical officer during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. “Regina, congratulations,” Netanyahu said at the ceremony. “You said just now that the soldiers were like…

British MPs on Tuesday debated their country’s funding of radical anti-Israel NGOs, with several legislators questioning why the government’s aid agency is spending so much on extremist organizations which undermine Israeli democracy. The debate on foreign aid at the UK House of Commons was prompted by a petition which garnered nearly a quarter of a million signatures –…

As the controversy over the so-called “Mikveh Law” rages on, prominent Modern-Orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has weighed in, urging Israelis not to view non-Orthodox Jews – such as the Reform and Conservative movements – as their enemies. Instead of attempting to legislate against them, the Orthodox establishment needs to find a way to work with them, despite…

The Ministerial Legislative Committee – that which determines whether the government will support or reject new legislation – has approved a bill designed to help “chained” women: If the recalcitrant husband is jailed for not giving a get (religious divorce), he will be prohibited from being served kosher l’mehadrin food, he will not be incarcerated…

The ISIS terrorist group is on the defensive, US President Barack Obama said, just days after a deadly shooting on a gay nightclub in Orlando which was claimed by the jihadist group. Obama on Tuesday said the Islamic State group was losing ground in Iraq and Syria, and that the number of foreign fighters joining the…

A top Google official on Tuesday hailed Israel’s tech sector, saying it trailed only Silicon Valley in the United States when it comes to “initiatives”. Eric Schmidt, formerly Google chief executive and now executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet, said Israel, a country of only around eight million people, was punching far above its…

A senior commander in Hamas’s elite commando unit has handed himself over to Israel, according to sources inside Gaza cited by Channel 2. Reports of his surrender to Israel have been circulating in Gaza ever since the commander – a member the elite “Nahba” unit of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades – went missing several days ago.…

The wife of Orlando attacker Omar Mateen has told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack, NBC News revealed on Tuesday. According to the report the wife, Noor Zahi Salman, told the FBI she was with her husband when he bought ammunition and a holster, several officials familiar…

The search continues along New York’s Atlantic Beach for a missing paddle boarder who was last seen Sunday afternoon. The 41-year old man, a Nassau county resident, was spotted by lifeguards on Atlantic Beach at 3:30 p.m. local time, wearing a white t-shirt and blue shorts. At 6:15 the Coast Guard was notified by family…

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Jewish institutions must heed the flaws in the security industry exposed by the mass shooting in Orlando, the top Jewish community security official said. Paul Goldenberg, who directs Secure Community Network, said Omar Mateen’s employment by a prominent security firm, G4S, should raise alarms for Jewish groups that hire security staffers from that firm and…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel was ready to share intelligence with NATO to help fight Islamist terrorism, as he met with ambassadors from alliance nations ahead of a summit. Netanyahu condemned the weekend massacre in Orlando in the United States, last week’s assault by Palestinian terrorists in Tel Aviv that killed four…

The Knesset Interior Committee on Tuesday lowered the minimum age at which Israeli civilians can acquire a firearms license, in the latest measure enabling civilians to legally arm themselves following the recent brutal wave of terrorist knife, gun and car-ramming attacks. The Committee approved lowering the age by one year – from 21 to 20…

(JTA) A $20 million gift will help the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum refurbish its 20-plus-years-old exhibit, with a focus on the challenges posed to democracies by rapid changes in technology. Allan and Shelley Holt announced their grant on Monday in honor of the parents of Allan Holt, who are Holocaust survivors. Holt, an investment manager…

A Hamas-linked media outlet has released a sickening video dramatizing the murderous shooting attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market last Wednesday. Four Israelis were killed in the attack by two Arab terrorists from Hamas, who opened fire on civilians at cafes and bars at the popular tourist site. Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups praised the…

(AFP) The jihadist killing of two police officials outside Paris is the latest targeted attack by an individual responding to Islamic State (ISIS or IS) terror group propaganda, terrorism experts say. In a video of Monday’s attack reportedly live-streamed on Facebook, 25-year-old Larossi Abballa referenced Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, an ISIS spokesman dubbed the group’s “attacks minister”…

The UK parliament has heard testimony from the leader of British Jewry’s major community organization as part of a probe into anti-Semitism. Jonathan Arkush, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, was giving evidence at the Home Affairs Select Committee anti-Semitism hearing in the House of Commons, which was called in light of rising…

(AFP) US-backed fighters chased the Islamic State group out of his village last year, but Syrian teenager Bashar Qassem’s missing hand is a constant reminder of their cruel rule.   A Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by US air strikes recaptured Bashar’s village of Al-Hol, near the border with Iraq, from the jihadists in November. When the jihadists…

Members of Knesset from across the political spectrum have appealed to President Reuven Rivlin to pardon a man incarcerated for murdering his rapist. Yonatan Heilo was initially sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Yaron Ayalon, who had repeated beat, raped and blackmailed him over the course of several months. When the two met one…

Despite difficulties, the haredi parties in the Knesset have successfully passed a bill to exempt yeshivas and seminaries from paying arnona, or property tax, through the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. The bill was submitted by MKs Yoav Ben-Tzur (Shas) and Menachem Eliezer Moses (UTJ). It is expected to reach the Knesset Assembly for its preliminary vote on…

The phenomenon of Arab, particularly Palestinian, public figures refusing to condemn terror attacks against Israelis is nothing new, but the experiences of those who do speak out suggests that the problem runs far deeper than just politicians. Ynet notes that a number of Arab journalists faced strong backlash for merely saying that shooting innocent civilians in cold blood…

Acquaintances say that Omar Mateen, the terrorist who murdered 49 people in a Florida LGBT club, was himself not straight. Ty Smith, a regular at the club, spoke with the Orlando Sentinel about seeing Mateen at least a dozen times. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would…

Prosecutors have filed charges against Omar Jandab for carrying out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv last month, in which an IDF soldier was lightly wounded. He is accused of attempted murder and illegally residing in Israel. Jandab is 18 years old and comes from the Samaria city of Salfit. According prosecutors, he left Judea and Samaria without a…

Prisoners in Shita Prison set a fire around midnight between Monday and Tuesday. A guard and three prisoners were evacuated to Haemek Hospital for treatment. A spokesperson for the Israel Prison Service said that the injured guard was trying to put out the flames. “The guards who saw the fire equipped themselves with specialized clothing…

In the United States as a whole, and among the hassidic community in particular, Shmueli Ungar has enjoyed superstar status for several years, even though he hasn’t even put out a single album. Clips from events in which he took part receive hundreds of thousands of views and shares, and his vocal talents are on…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said a long-dormant Arab peace initiative with the Palestinians that he has spoken of reviving must be changed before Israel can support it. Netanyahu made the comments on Monday night to members of his Likud party, after facing pressure from members of his cabinet over his recent comments on the Arab initiative. Jewish Home members who…

Palestinians are furious over Israel’s rare achievement of being chosen to head a United Nations committee. Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour held a press conference on Monday night, in which he claimed that “The Arab countries tried to prevent the Israeli representative’s election, because it does not sound reasonable that a country in…

The terrorist who murdered a French police officer Tuesday morning broadcast his attack live on Facebook. During the broadcast, the murderer said that he does not know what to do with the three-year-old child after killing his parents. The terrorist’s Facebook page has been taken down by the site. The terrorist ambushed a police officer…

Today’s Walter’s World deviates from the usual subjects and brings the extraordinary story of a young Jewish refugee from Germany living in England, and his exploits as a British soldier during World War II.   This is not just another war story. it provides insight into the mind of that soldier. Wait for the twist. You should not…